Web Design Inspiration Curated

Blue Acorn

This is really one of the most well done detailed sites i've seen in a while. There are so many elements to this site it's hard to spot them all. I think just about any format of HTML you can have in a website in regards to layout elements and content elements have...

Zuno Studios

Submitted by Jonathan Lackey, @zuno, We've just launched our company portfolio site, ZunoStudios.com It's built on the Joomla! framework. It showcases our design and development work as well as case studies of some of our more interesting projects. Pretty nice design...

Rainfall Interactive

Submitted by Dalibor Vasiljevic @rainfallstudio, We just redesigned our website. We are identity and interactive communication agency from Europe and this is our online portfolio. Nice looking design studio website, some good detail work here. I like the roll-over...

Element Web Media

Here is a really nice example of the single-page smooth scrolling portfolio site. I like the dark colors (that aren't black) used here and I like the use of the smooth scrolling effect. This is also a very good example of using the light-box effect well, I get the...

artvisiona.ro

I especially like the illustration work on the top of this site. It's fun and original looking, it adds that personal extra layer to this designer portfolio website. This is also a very simply designed portfolio site, it's all about the work and I like that. Carefully...

kissmeimpolish.com

This is a wonderfully, deceptive website design. When you first look at it it looks really simple and the more you spend time here you realize there has been a ton of work put into this thing with all the little details here and there and the depth of copy. I...

plmcreative.com

As these long single-page websites go this one is pretty nice. I like the colors, using the brown/orange and lighter/more saturated shades of the same give the background an eerie boggy look that I quite like. The background image itself looks a little muddied up with...

Yoecvo

Submitted by Jorge Gonzalez, @jorgeespira. Yoeco is an spanish firm that sells ecological foods to take at home. This is a nice simple website. I especially like the fresh, crisp looking lettuce on the sides. I thought this was a good example of how to work with a bad...

sstudio.in

This is a nice dark background, personal portfolio site. All of the graphic elements are done well but I would suggest that the typography needs tweaking. There are certain areas of the page where the copy is overwhelming to the eye, like on the homepage where words...

365icon

Submitted by Jonathan Allen, @moderngenius. 365icon.com is a uniquely designed icon gallery that features a featured section, easy navigation, and daily updates with new downloadable icons. The layout was designed to be clean and easy for users to navigate. It is a...

Pixelbot.ro – Webdesign Company

Submitted by @pixelbot_ro Pixelbot.ro - Webdesign Company, Bucharest - Romania Nice web design firm website, the robot motif is fun and clever. What I like about this is the stark clean white background with the black imagery and type working perfectly together. This...

bigkid.co.nz

This is a really cool design experiment using a non-fixed width site. Using some scripting (jQuery) to fix the site's grid/width based on the browser width you are currently viewing the site at. It's a really cool effect. The design of this site is also very nice, the...

14 Tracks

Submitted by Adeyemi Adeleye, @yemster Simple, compact and fresh way of discovering new music. Would be interesting to get your take on it. This is a really fun to use site because of all the bright colors and large icons. It's easy to listen to the music or quickly...

msichicago.org

This is a huge sprawling website and as I click around through it I never feel lost, that's not an easy feat for a site of this size. There's plenty of interaction going on here and it's not in-your-face flashy, which is how I like it. The subtle forms and exhibit...

simplestation.com

I really like the simplicity of this design, the big portfolio images on the homepage are nice and the b&w to color roll over effect is subtle. The blog is nice too not only in the way it looks and is presented but in the content too.

area17.com

This is another great "large agency" website. This site is clean, clear and precise and has some really nice typography. The writing is also top notch in the portfolio section. Spend some time on this site, you'll surely find some inspirational pieces to get you going.

mixer.iconbakery.com

This is a really nice looking design, I love the typography and matching icon work on this site. I think it suffers from not having enough explanation though, it took me a bit to get what it is the site is for. A little copy would go a long way to helping new...

graphik.fi

Really nice cleanly designed website. There is a lot of nice detail work in the navigation mainly, but all across the site as well. The sites being displayed in the iPhone on the homepage are a little deceiving as I don't think those are actually iPhone optimized...

goenvisage.com

There is some neat stuff going on in this design. I like the header area visually and I like the horizontal lines which break up the dark background enough.

medallia.com

I just found the use of the super large picture of the three dudes and the way the grid/navigation was laid out over it interesting.